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G1 --- $NOT AVAILABLE --- this is the orientation view --- more pics down below
diameter: 7"
height: 5 3/4"
finish: one application of natural stain then 3 coats of high gloss spar polyurethane (with UV blocker)
WOODS USED: [SEE DISCUSSION ON THE MAIN PAGE OF THIS SITE IF ANY OF THIS IS UNCLEAR]
base view 1: chatoyant sipo backed by bubinga, hard maple veneer, machiche, all over oak, then all of that over oak again.
base view 3: Outer piece (now only on top and bottom) is canary and the center is obeche.
base view 5: top is redheart, below that is ? (flaky gray-brown), bloodwood. Bottom is bloodwood, center is mahogany.
base view 7: Outer piece (now only on top and bottom) is canary and the center is obeche.
NOTE: the slab used for the canary in views 3 and 7 was spectacular and most of it ended up as shavings just to get the 4 wedges that remain, but I think they're worth it.
center: all four inner sections and all 4 edge sections are sipo
view 1: The outer lamination is bocote and paela plus machiche on the lower left and mahogany on the left and right. This is all backed by a thick piece of sapele then a thin piece of aromatic red cedar.
view 3: from the top: very light-colored African mahogany (quite chatoyant), walnut veneer, hard maple veneer, padauk veneer, hard maple veneer, oak veneer, COMPLEX LAMINATION, bloodwood, all backed by prima vera with some blue stain.
COMPLEX LAMINATION: upper right slant is mahogany, and below that is machiche, padauk, ebony veneer, padauk veneer, hard maple veneer. On the left is mahogany over aromatic red cedar and the middle, from the top down is: canary, padauk veneer, hard maple veneer, purpleheart veneer, hard maple veneer, aromatic red cedar, thick cherry veneer, thick walnut veneer, maple veneer, cherry veneer, walnut veneer, maple veneer, cherry thin. The slant in the middle is, left to right: maple veneer, padauk veneer, walnut veneer, maple veneer, walnut, aromatic red cedar. The right bottom is African blackwood and above that is bocote.
view 5: osage orange, wenge, African mahogany thin, padauk veneer, African mahogany thin, cocobolo, holly veneer, ? (could be cocobolo). All of that backed by mahogany over yew and on the left is a wedge of poplar over chechem over bubinga with a little half-oval of ? out front. On the right was the same vertical lamination but only the chechem remains.
view 7: maple, thick walnut veneer, padauk veneer, maple veneer, walnut veneer, thick maple veneer, purpleheart to the left of bloodwood, canary to the left of silky oak, walnut veneer, maple veneer, padauk veneer, cherry veneer, mahogany veneer, all of that backed by mahogany veneer then light-colored African mahogany.
flaws/issues: none
comments: One of my "busy" bowls --- lots of complex laminations in the various sections.
view 7c, showing the rather nifty way that the back side of view 3 shows through inside the rim
views 1b and 3b
views 5b and 7a
view 5d
view 1b as the bowl blank and then as the finished bowl